Preparing to Sell E-Books, Google Takes on Amazon — Google appears to be throwing down the gauntlet in the e-book market. — In discussions with publishers at the annual BookExpo convention in New York over the weekend, Google signaled its intent to introduce a program by that would enable publishers …

Who Cares What People Write ? — In this day and age of blogs, aggregation sites, personal recommendation sites, link publishing, twitter and more, its not unusual to get a news alert email, or to wake up and google a person, place or thing and find hundreds of references originated in just the past 24 hours.

Microsoft is Getting Things Right This Time — Geeks and some part of the tech world consider it cool to hate everything that comes out of the Microsoft campus. Let me share a few instances. — Microsoft develops Vista and the vocal crowd immediately dubs it a failed product although …

Nvidia Netbooks: Windows now, Android later — Nvidia has its own grand scheme for Netbooks, the tiny laptops that have gained wide acceptance running on software and hardware from Microsoft and Intel. — At the giant Computex conference starting June 2 in Taiwan, Nvidia …

Apple Now Charging to Re-Download Apps on the iPhone? — UPDATE: Per comments below, this only seems to be effecting some users and only on 3.0 Beta firmware. We've also added a poll in the forum so we can see what everyone thinks. Take a moment to vote, betas can and do change...

Broadband for EVERYbody — We used to think it was enough to make broadband accessible everywhere. That's no longer good enough. We now need to make sure that everyone actually has broadband in his or her residence and business. Everyone! (voluntary cave dweller excepted).

Business Opportunities around Google Wave — How could you build a business with the newly announced Google Wave? — Wave is like email mixed with collaborative editing and instant messaging. It's conceivable that the Google Wave paradigm will replace today's group collaboration tools …

iPhone's Safari Browser to include Geolocation — I can't believe I missed this. Even worse, it looks like just about everyone did (OK, not everyone). I just checked a GPS-enabled webpage page, below, on a 3.0B5 iPhone's Mobile Safari and Boom! The webpage checks the GPS coordinates of the iPhone and returns a result.

Cory Visits and the Social Networking Execs Line Up — Last Friday I got invited to join a brainstorming session to help Newark City mayor Cory Booker using social software. Why was this meeting different than yet another celebrity or politician tweetering and Facebooking?

Video: Inside The Google Holodeck — At this past week's Google I/O event in San Francisco, Google brought a contraption it calls the “Holodeck,” for event-goers to experience. Basically, it's a near-360 degree way to view Google Street View in fast motion, high definition video.